Sentences with phrase «for egoists»

Not exact matches

Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson, for example, argues that evolutionary forces imply the triumph of selfish people over altruists within groups, but that groups of altruists beat groups of egoists.

For I suppress much of my actual truth, I do not want to admit it; I am perhaps in an ultimate attitude of protest without noticing it; despite all my talk about the love of one's neighbour I may even be the greatest egoist without realizing it.

Otherwise we shall, from the Christian point of view, remain obstinate egoists who fundamentally fight for themselves rather than for their object.

Given the importance of altruism for his theory, then, why does Mill not anticipate and respond to the egoist's objection stated above?

Moreover, it seems to me that an egoist could accept the universalizability principle but insist that one of the relevant respects for ascribing goodness to something is that it be experienced personally by the egoist.

It appears, however, that Mill commits a simple fallacy of composition in inferring from each person's desire for his own happiness that the general happiness is a good to the aggregate of all persons.6 The egoist will surely reply as follows: «The fact that I desire my own happiness is no reason why I ought to desire the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Arsenal's infirmary has been oversubscribed for too long and bringing in an old incapacitated egoist gunslinger like Ibra may be ii - advised.

Not because of her support of hospitals (I like them for sick people), not b / c she's bashing homebirthers as egoists, but b / c she hasn't read any facts about homebirth before she put her opinion out there.

Johnson appears to be an utter fabulist, an egoist with scant regard for reality, pointing at a barren lot and waving at all the happy people he has housed there.

Abandoned by his wife, this monumentally phallocentric egoist is really in love with his own penis: «A love affair so intense that there's hardly room for anyone else.»

Created with no expense spared, each Nissan GT - R Egoist will be tailor made for its owner.

In the 1960s, he co-founded GRAV (Group for Research in Visual Art), which was a collective that actively rejected the egoist, self - indulgent aesthetics and constraints of abstract expressionism.

Five different sections: The Egoist, The Blind Man, Two to Tango, For the Time Being and La Madeleine, plus the occasional appearance of The Double Dealer and Ekphrasis, comprise the Rules of the Game, which are the same in each issue.